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Wednesday, 1 May 2013

WOYWW 204

I had to come and play this week - after having a great day on Monday with Julia, Lunch Lady Jan and Brenda (who is over here on holiday). If you want to see, there's a piccie of the four of us here. Of course I whined about not being able to make it to the WOYWW Crop on 1st June due to the date not being right - but it fell on stony ground, sigh :(

Right, my desk yesterday afternoon:

Just the makings of a card using the Scrabble letters I won from my pal Annie recently, the fabulous Arboscello Tree Die to post off to Maureen our Snippets Playground winner, some adorable Radley style doggie buttons that I bought in Salisbury (still mulling those over), SU card swatch, lots of scribbled reminder notes and some snippets of ribbon to remind me to replenish stocks.

Oh, and one of those gadgets that I think I must have inherited from my Mum, it's the grey gizmo with the red semi-perforating wheel. You used a type of carbon paper to mark dart lines on material when dressmaking. I found it lurking in a 'long forgotten box' yesterday and think, only think mind you, it could be handy for faux stitching?

That's me for today - fairly short and sweet - do be sure to hop over to Julia's to check her desk out (I was too busy admiring her husband's fabulous staircase woodwork on Monday to sidle in for a quick peek) - and then off you can go to check out what loads of other folk are up to, I could well bump into you on the rounds :)

great looking desk and I love that tree die! I have one of those tracing wheels also inherited from my Mom years ago. I am amazed how long I have had it and it still works. Went to the link and saw the pics of your day out with the gals. I am so jealous! Have a great week. Vickie #41

Stony ground!! LOL.....sorry........Now that's a useful tool you've found! I've never heard of such a thing.....if you do give it a whirl for faux stitching, give us a peek at it...it would be interesting to see :)Thanks for your company on Monday...you made me laugh a lot ;)Hugs, LLJ 27 xxx

Lots of interesting stuff on your desk... I too have one of those wheely perforators and I used to use it many moons ago as you described for pattern cutting. So good you got together with Brenda, J & J. Must have been a fun day. Love Jo ps Boo hoo , I too cannot get to the crop!

Hi Diit does sound like you ladies all had a great time when you got together. I think it is great that you meet someone through their blog and then you get to meet them.I am loving that die and those dog buttons and the faux stitching idea is fabHappy WOYWW #204 and enjoy the rest of your weekRia #44

Stony ground - you are a right old sympathy catch huh! Hey I have one of those dot transfer wheels too...mine must be quite worn because it needs too much pressure to be any good on card..although it's not too bad on lightweight stuff.. Nice to see your doggies..I wonder if you'll commit to the fabric? I dunno, sigh, everything seems to take so long to do!!.

Hi Di,Sorry I'm so late in calling by this week but I've been having fun all day with my little twinny munchkins and blogging didn't get a look in :-)Love the photo of the 4 of you over on Jan's blog.Hugs,A x #37

Panic set in for a minute there as I wondered what you were admiring of her Husband.Well you have got me there on the scrabble tiles, I have no idea what word you are going to make from them!Little doggies look cute though.Feel dead guilty as I have just noticed that Brenda has become a follower and I didn't acknowledge it on my snippets post, hope I remember on my next post whenever that will be.

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